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Scientists
Structure
RNA
Mutations
Gene Regulation
Replication
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Scientist who studied pneumonia in mice
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Who is Frederick Griffith?
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Genes being changed into something new by DNA
transfer
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What is transformation?
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The monomer of DNA
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What is a nucleotide?
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The amount of Adenine is equal to Thymine the
amount of Cytosine is equal to Guanine
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What are Chargoffs Rules?
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Name of sugar in DNA
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What is deoxyribose?
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The shape of DNA
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What is a double helix?
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The molecules that make up the rungs of the DNA
ladder
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What are nitrogen bases?
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The base paired with Adenine in DNA
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What is Thymine?
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Location of DNA in Eukaryotic cells
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What is the nucleus?
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The proteins which chromatin contains
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What are histones?
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Type of RNA that functions as a blueprint of DNA
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What is mRNA?
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Process during which DNA is copied into 2 new
strands
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What is Replication?
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Process during which mRNA is formed inside the
nucleus
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What is transcription?
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Part of cell lifespan during which DNA molecules
become tightly coiled
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What is mitosis?
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Holds the 2 strands of DNA together must be
broken prior to transcription
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What are hydrogen bonds?
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Type of sugar in RNA
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What is ribose?
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Type of RNA found in ribosomes
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What is rRNA?
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Molecules produced during transcription
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What are mRNA molecules?
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Types of RNA involved in protein synthesis
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What are mRNA, rRNA, tRNA?
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Binding site for RNA polymerase
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What is a promoter site?
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The instructions for assembling these molecules
are in genes
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What are proteins?
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3 RNA nucleotides used to code for amino acids
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What are codons?
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Order of nitrogenous bases in DNA determines
these monomers that are made
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What are amino acids?
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Process during which mRNA is decoded by tRNA to
make amino acids
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What is translation?
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Causes translation to end
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What is a stop codon?
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Kind of virus that infects bacteria
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What is a bacteriophage?
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Process during which the DNA code is changed into
a different amino acid that could be harmful
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What is a mutation?
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In E. coli, controls the breakdown of lactose
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What is the lac operon?
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Determines an animals basic body plan
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What are Hox genes?
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Part of RNA molecule that are spliced back
together to form mRNA
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What are exons?
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Type of mutation shown in process D above

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What is translocation?